Healthcare costs continue to rise for Dow component UnitedHealth (UNH -7%), pushing its medical care ratio, or MCR, considerably higher yr/yr in Q3 and clipping the high end of its FY24 adjusted EPS ...

[BRIEFING.COM] The major indices settled into a sideways flow near session highs.

Today's trade featured a negative bias through the entire session. The major indices were trading slightly lower for most of the day before selling picked up in the afternoon. The S&P 500 ultimately ...

The stock market had a solid showing today. The Russell 2000 continued its recent outperformance, jumping 1.6%, bringing its weekly gain to 2.5%. The S&P 500 (+0.5%), Nasdaq Composite (+0.3%), and Dow ...

The S&P 500 futures are up 13 points and are trading 0.2% above fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are up 109 points and are trading 0.6% above fair value, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures ...

Today's economic data had a mostly pleasing hue, particularly the September Retail Sales Report. Industrial production was weak, but not as weak as it appeared given the temporary drag of the Boeing ...

[BRIEFING.COM] S&P futures vs fair value: +2.00. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: -5.00. The S&P 500 futures are up two points and are trading fractionally above fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are ...

[BRIEFING.COM] S&P futures vs fair value: -5.00. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: -55.00. The S&P 500 futures are down five points and are trading 0.1% below fair value, the Nasdaq 100 futures are down ...

Monday featured another low-volume advance for the major indices and another round of new highs for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, market cap-weighted S&P 500, equal-weighted S&P 500, and S&P ...

Netflix (NFLX +11%) is nicely higher following its Q3 report last night. NFLX reported another nice double-digit EPS beat with revenue upside. The Q4 guidance was impressive with pretty significant ...

The 10-yr note yield briefly traded below 4.00%, but quickly ran into resistance and now sits just above the 4-handle. Overall, the curve is still sticking to a tight trading range. Trading conviction ...

It was a weak day yesterday for the stock market as bond yields, oil prices, and the strength of Hurricane Milton all rose. Things are looking a little better this morning with some Pavlovian ...